Any project that relies solely on votes is garbage. Period.
What has voting done for this platform for the past few years? You think that project is unique?
Look what happened to Utopian?
For someone who pretends to write sound "financial" articles, how clueless are you to think that's a sustainable model?
I prefer useful dapps over mindless upvoting shit nobody reads any day. Your logic is no better than the geniuses that continually tag only #hive on Twitter.
Blogging-ONLY is a damn failed concept. Stop trying to make it the sole purpose of the blockchain. And stop supporting the "cash out only" culture.
Never said blogging is the sole purpose of this chain, but since this model is the foundation of this chain, and actually the only part of it that is well recognized and associated with the HIVE brand, it is just stupid to ignore it completely.
It's like trying to make Bitcoin stop being a project focused on creating a digital cash system to suddenly shift completely from it's core function to become a dapp platform.
And actually, the problem with HIVE not being economic sustainable doesn't have anything related to being a blogging platform or not, but the whole economic model is flawed from the beginning. The content creation is only first and still the main way the tokens are distributed. (The main trend of the HIVE price is down, unless there is a demand increase. Economy 101 you know...)
Your argument for killing the content creation side as a mean of token distribution shows more that you want to keep the coins flowing to the pockets of those that already have a lot of them (aka witness), instead of allowing more people to have access to it and over time, create a solid economy of dapps, products and a lot of other possible stuff.
The Blogging part of this experiment is failing not because it is a failed concept, but because those that were supposed to improve this foundation are more busy trying to find ways to fill their own pockets while praising how "awesome" this blockchain is to convince clueless people to buy into a half-baked project.
Meanwhile, something like @engrave, a project with the potential to become a Wordpress based on a blockchain doesn't seem to attract much attention from big stakeholders.
Also, funny question: If blogging is such a failure, why you still do it regularly and reap the rewards from it?
Reaping what rewards? You mean all the funds I kept inside this ecosystem while the value continues to dwindle as someone like you cash out because $10 is actually a significant amount where you live?
I’m sorry, but even the games here require you to pay with HIVE. So, if I’m not buying, I need to get them from somewhere.
I don’t need some group who perpetually cash out the bulk of what they earn to tell me what I should value.
I’m not advocating to kill content. I’m arguing to stop putting it on a pedestal because it ain’t some novel concept.
Build stuff people want to use. Build stuff people want to replace. Not reinventing the wheel, slap blockchain on it, and expect people to come flocking to it. Especially those blog-centric ideas.
It's hard not to agree with you on this one.
Because your brains are so dead you can’t think of anything outside of “content creation” as a mean of distribution.
I wonder how other chains do it? Guess they are broken too.
I would love to see what did you manage to achieve so far @enforcer48, except of constant complaining.
Surprise us (assuming you can).
On one hand people like yourself are comparing trending on steemit and trending page on hive, to prove that hive is doing better. And whenever it's convinient - you attack those content creators. It's actually quite amusing.
Lol I don’t pretend I have accomplished anything.
Or, do you see me praising Hive.
But in a typical Piotr fashion, you spew ignorant comments about things you clearly don’t understand.
But hey, keep being that @dimimp.
Dear @enforcer48
I'm seriously asking. I would like to know if I'm constantly criticized by someone with any serious achievements or simply by "nobody".
Please, enlighten me.
Regards, Piotr
My achievements in life are my own.
You aren’t entitled an answer.
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